Distance from Buenos Aires to Sydney
The great-circle distance between Buenos Aires, Argentina and Sydney, Australia is 11,800 km (7,332 mi · 6,372 nmi) — the shortest possible route over the Earth's surface, the path aircraft approximately follow.
The numbers
- Great-circle distance
- 11,800 km · 7,332 mi · 6,372 nmi
- Initial bearing Buenos Aires → Sydney
- 205° (SSW)
- Initial bearing Sydney → Buenos Aires
- 155° (SSE)
- Nonstop flight (rough estimate)
- ≈ 14 h 32 min
- Time zones
- Buenos Aires UTC-03:00 · Sydney UTC+10:00 (+13 h)
- Sunrise gap today
- 839 min — the sun rises later in Buenos Aires
Flight time is a cruise-speed approximation (no routing/wind); driving distance depends on roads and is typically 20–40% longer than great-circle.
The two cities
- Buenos Aires
- -34.6131, -58.3772
- Sunrise / sunset today
- 10:42 UTC / 21:18 UTC
- Sydney
- -33.8678, 151.2073
- Sunrise / sunset today
- 20:43 UTC / 07:21 UTC
Open in the distance calculator Find the halfway point
Distances here are straight-line (great-circle). Road routes typically run 1.2–1.4× longer — here's why, with the visual.